Information, Uncertainty and Fusion

by Bouchon-Meunier, Bernadette; Yager, Ronald R.; Zadeh, Lotfi Asker

• ISBN13: 9780792385905
• ISBN10: 079238590X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-12-01
• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Pub

Summary

The recent IPMU Conference held in La Sorbonne in Paris brought together some of the world's leading experts in uncertainty and information fusion. In this volume, the editors have included a selection of papers from this conference. Underlying much of the processing of information is the need to fusion information; this is especially so in attempts to implement 'intelligent' operations. The development of efficient tools for retrieval of documents, a concern whose importance has increased in proportion to the rapid development of the internet, requires the use of fusion techniques. Attempts to construct intelligent agents require the use of sophisticated operations, many of which are of a fusion type, to help model the complex ways human beings interact with information and each other. In this volume, the editors have attempted to bring the reader some of the most recent advances in information, uncertainty and fusion.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Information	1	(158)
Revision by Translation	3	(30)
D. Gabbay
O. Rodrigues
A. Russo
Ambiguous Implications in Knowledge-Based Systems Described by Entity-Characteristic Tables	33	(12)
S. Guiasu
Functional Dependencies and the Design of Relational Databases Involving Imprecise Data	45	(12)
P. Bosc
L. Lietard
A Query Construct for Paraconsistent Databases	57	(12)
R. Bagai
Fuzzy Classificatory Object Recognition for Crisis Detection	69	(12)
H. Larsen
R. R. Yager
An Approach to Using Degrees of Belief in BDI Agents	81	(12)
S. Parsons
P. Giorgini
Representation of Comonotonically Additive Functional by Choquet Integral	93	(12)
Y. Narukawa
T. Murofushi
M. Sugeno
On Lower and Upper Approximation of Fuzzy Measures by k-Order Additive Measures	105	(14)
M. Grabisch
Generated Fuzzy Quantifiers and Their Orderings	119	(12)
E. E. Kerre
M. Mares
R. Mesiar
On Neurofuzzy and Fuzzy Decision Tree Approaches	131	(16)
C. Olaru
L. Wehenkel
A Fuzzy Extension to a Temporal Parsimonious Covering Theory	147	(12)
S. Sandri
J. Wainer
Uncertainty	159	(146)
Probabilities of Future Decisions	161	(12)
D. Nilsson
F.V. Jensen
Representations Issues for Risk Scenarios	173	(12)
S. Langley
Zero Probabilities in Stochastical Independence	185	(12)
G. Coletti
R. Scozzafava
Computing the Probability of Formulas Representing Events in Product Spaces	197	(12)
P.A. Monney
B. Anrig
Uncertainty Handling for Distributed Database Integration and Knowledge Discovery	209	(12)
S.I. McClean
B.W. Scotney
A Rule-Based Language for Probabilistic Reasoning	221	(12)
S.K.M. Wong
Deriving Possibility Distributions from Data Sets Using Confidence Intervals of Probabilities	233	(12)
L.M. de Campos
J.F. Huete
Fuzzy Random Variables-Based Modeling with GA-P Algorithms	245	(12)
L. Sanchez
I. Couso
A Seasonal Streamflow Forecasting Model Using Neurofuzzy Network	257	(12)
R. Ballini
M. Figueiredo
S. Soares
M. Andrade
F. Gomide
Allowing Imprecision in Belief Representation Using Fuzzy-Valued Belief Structures	269	(14)
T. Denoeux
A Transformational Approach to Fuzzy Propositions	283	(10)
F. Fernandez
J. Gutierrez
Four-Valued Logics for Reasoning with Uncertainty in Prioritized Data	293	(12)
O. Arieli
Fusion	305	(154)
A Mathematical Model for Fuzzy Connectives and its Application to Operators Behavioural Study	307	(12)
E. Trillas
A. Pradera
S. Cubillo
Invariance Properties of OWA Operators	319	(12)
S. Ovchinnikov
Aggregation Operators as Similarity Relations	331	(12)
G. Beliakov
Semantic Meaning of Fuzzy Control Models and Heterogeneous Aggregation Operators	343	(12)
B. Shukhat
Maxative Fuzzy Preference Structures	355	(10)
B. De Baets
J. Fodor
Directed Possibilistic Graphs and Possibilistic Logic	365	(16)
S. Benferhat
D. Dubois
L. Garcia
H. Prade
A Logic of Supporters	381	(12)
C. Lafage
J. Lang
R. Sabbadin
Building Argumentation Systems on Set Constraint Logic	393	(14)
R. Haenni
N. Lehmann
Genetic Fuzzy c-Means Algorithm for Automatic Generation of Fuzzy Partitions	407	(12)
S. Lopez
L. Magdalena
J. Velasco
Fast Dempster-Shafer Clustering Using a Neural Network Structure	419	(12)
J. Schubert
Distribution of Contradictive Belief Masses in Combination of Belief Functions	431	(16)
M. Daniel
Relationships Among Ordinal Relations on a Finite Set of Events	447	(12)
A. Capotorti
B. Vantaggi
Index	459